Benjamin Franklin Kelley

Benjamin Franklin Kelley (10 April 1807-16 July 1891) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Benjamin Franklin Kelley was born in New Hampton, New Hampshire in 1807, and he moved to Wheeling, Virginia at the age of 19 and engaged in the merchandise business before becoming a freight agent for the B&O Railroad in 1851. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he raised a West Virginia regiment to fight for the Union, and he was wounded at the Battle of Philippi early in the war. He became a Brigadier-General on 17 May 1862, and he came to command a 10,000-strong division during the fighting in West Virginia. On 5 August 1864, he was brevetted as a Major-General, and he and George Crook were both captured by Confederate partisans on 21 February 1865 before being exchanged on 20 March. He resigned on 1 June after the war's end, and he became an internal revenue collector in 1866 and an examiner of pensions in 1883. He died in 1891.